Job Title : Category Manager (Refurbishment, Energy, Embodied Carbon)Pay Scale : Administrative 1 Closing Date : 05-Mar-2025 12:00Contact Email : About TrinityTrinity is Ireland's leading university and is ranked 87th in the world (QS World University Rankings 2025).
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Trinity College Dublin- an introduction Post Summary The Category Manager is responsible for all procurement activity across the Facilities category, delivered in consultation with the Estates & Facilities team.
The new role is complex, comprising technical, commercial and legal/regulatory elements with a Carbon Reduction/Sustainability focus at its core.
The Category Manager will lead out in the following areas: • Legal & Regulatory Compliance: Fulfilling Trinity's considerable Value-for-Money, legal and audit compliance requirements relating to Works, Goods and Services contracts across the extensive Facilities category • Sustainability Leadership: Ensuring expenditure across the Category is analysed and approached from a Sustainability & Biodiversity perspective to support Trinity in meeting its Gap to Target Obligations for 2030.
This will involve both the Estates & Facilities function and the Sustainability Office and will include carbon reduction initiatives and large-scale infrastructural energy retrofits.
• Procurement Strategy/Value for Money: Ensuring that all opportunities for achieving Value for Money are identified and acted on and bringing Facilities Management plans to fruition thus supporting the delivery of €2m in procurement savings per annum, effective Category Management and Sustainability - three strategic pillars of Trinity's Procurement Strategy • Category & Supplier Management: Delivering industry-standard/best practice Category Management for the Facilities Management team, inputting to other Category teams where appropriate, including Laboratory & Research and ICT; engaging with multiple Government agencies to bring multiple Hard and Soft Facilities Management projects to market and supporting delivery of the University's central commitment to sustainable practice.
• Facilities Projects: Working with Estates & Facilities to developing project-specific procurement and contracting strategies, including on the management and co-ordination of technical, commercial and legal inputs, with a contract management element for any resulting agreements.
Post status: 3 Year Fixed-Term Contract Hours of Post: 35 hours per week Salary: This appointment will be made on the Administrative 1 (Points 1-6), Salary Scale (€68,181- €107,959 per annum) at a point in line with current Government pay policy.
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